Hold on to your hats

Where is our beloved country headed?

If this latest stimulus, wait, my bad, “reinvestment” package and the insane rate at which our treasury is printing money are any indication, it’s nowhere good. Have we become so lazy that socialism isn’t so bad anymore? If that’s the case, why can’t we have an honest discussion about it? The only place I find people talking about what’s really happening is on evil <sarcasm> conservative talk radio and hate-mongering <sarcasm> FOX News. 

My friend Clayton Bell posted this a few months ago and I thought he sounded like a crazy separatist. Now I’m sort of thinking he was on to something. I certainly don’t like the hard left turn we have taken and I’m about ready to jump ship.

Maybe I’m alone, but I don’t trust politicians at all. They seem to ignore their constituents and act out of self-preservation. I’m pretty sure some of you feel the same way. What we’ve got here is disenfranchisement people and that’s not good.

Please, help me out. I’m tired of waking up every day and deeply caring about what’s going on in Washington. Every day!  I could just unplug, but that seems irresponsible. If we’re not informed and exercising our rights then we have no room to complain, right? We can’t ask questions if we don’t know what to ask or who to question.

Where are we headed? Are you okay with that? If not, how do you cope?